The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-01
QUEEN CITY OF THE GULF.


Large HoucI-Laree Cigar Fac
tory-E women and Dancing.
TRABUE. FLA, Dee. 1886.
Special Correspondence Palatka NEWS.
Ii might be of interest to know
what this end is doing. SO here it is.
CHRISTMAS
Was a lovely day, as ell are here.
This day was particularly SO. Old Mas
ter sent us this beautiful day as a CT, St
mas gift. 1t was about the only gift re-
ceived by some of US, in this town,
where there are niuety-eight eligible
young men anxious to make the dark
There are many OF us, who can say with
Burns, Every iaddie has a lassie, nary
one have L." But few Christmas re-
minders now received by Us. 1t is to be
hoped that some of our fs'- ones viii
81 * summer climate here soon. The
cold weather has driven Southya-d the
rosy robins. Not yet those maideps
whose cheeks are rosy tipped, by the
cold winds of the North.
THE DANCE
At Major j. B. Williams Hotel was a
success. The dining-rOOm, forty feet
wide and eighty feet long was the ball
room. Tastefully too was the room dec
GRATED. The sea grape, the leaves of the
Cabbage Palm took the place of the holly
and the bamboo. Just think, fourteen
ladies and one hundred men. OF these
there were only four manageable girls.
What a country for ladies considered
passed What paradise for those
maidens, who wear twOlOng curls down
their shoulders. Now we hope all of the
old maids of Christendom will come
n
soon have another ball, New Years
Eve. Dancing, music, balls, sailing con-
stitute our pleasures. There are several
vIolins in town, no pianos. The nearest
approximation is a music box, in which
some one caught the passing strains of
seven sweet tunes and boxed them up.
All you have to do is to wind her up. and
the tunes come forth.
But enough of that, (woman) of which
we have so little. The town is rapidly
! developing. The hotel will have fifty
rooms open on the 18th of January-an-
niverssry of my birthday. Eight or ten
nice houses are going up. ''Marvelous!'
| exclaIms every one who comes. But
two months SINCE newspaper cores
pendent of the Tampa tribune, in order
to bring out the present contrast, de-
| clared that there was nc a house in the
city. To-day there are half a million
4 SD1DSIeS III tOWn, O0 WHICH the ram uShS
| never fallen. see six stores all finished,
or nearly 20; two hotels. besides the big
| one; two restaurants. i step into one of
the restaurants, l see twenty men eat
ing; in a hotel L see eighty-four: and
numbers of people in other places eat
ing. They say a man can get no &C
| commodatIOns here; come and see.
| CUBAN FACTORIES.
An effort has been made to secure such
a factory. There are some chances Of its
| success. With the establishment of a
Havana Steamship Line there could be
no doubt of it. You see the duties on
the manufactured article are greater than
on the raw material. Hence. the Cubans
come here.
POLITICALLY,
Now, we look at Sam Randall's per-
formances in Congress as something in
compatible with Democratic faith. You
let a Florida Democratic Congressman,
in a few years, shut out the Cubans from
Key West and Tampa and Punta
Gorda. And then listen to the
bowls of Mapatee, Monroe and
ties on our Fl III, ,, and then listen. Soon.
Florida may need protection. Heretofore
we thought we did not need water pro
tection-now look out for tariff protec-
ton.
But l am DEPRESSING. Soon the big
hotel will be opened, and the Queen City
of the Gulf will await the coming Of the
beauty and pride of the country.